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Thomas Stedman Whitwell. Thomas Stedman Whitwell (1784–1840) was an English architect and civil engineer, best known for his collaboration with Robert Owen on an unrealised design for a secular communal utopia at New Harmony, Indiana, USA.
The New Harmony Story (The New Harmony Publication Committee, 1967) De la Hunt, Thomas James, ed. History of the New Harmony Workingmen's Institute, New Harmony, Indiana (Evansville, 1927) Douglas, Jeffrey. "William Maclure and the New Harmony Working Men's Institute", Libraries and Culture 26 (1991): 402–414. Elliott, Josephine Mirabella.
Modern Times was a Utopian community existing from 1851 to 1864 in what is now Brentwood, New York, United States. Founded by Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews, the community based its structure on Warren’s ideas of individual sovereignty and equitable commerce. [1] Modern Times existed until 1864 when its citizens decided to change the ...
The New Harmony Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District in New Harmony, Indiana. It received its landmark designation in 1965, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, with a boundary increase in 2000. The district includes properties within the Historic New Harmony State Historic Site.
The Owenite movement undertook several experiments in the establishment of utopian communities organized according to communitarian and cooperative principles. [1] One of the best known of these efforts, which was unsuccessful, was the project at New Harmony, Indiana, which started in 1825 and was
Robert Owen (/ ˈoʊɪn /; 14 May 1771 – 17 November 1858) was a Welsh textile manufacturer, philanthropist and social reformer, and a founder of utopian socialism and the co-operative movement. He strove to improve factory working conditions, promoted experimental socialistic communities, sought a more collective approach to child-rearing ...
The Harmony Society is a Christian theosophy and pietist society founded in Iptingen, Germany, in 1785. Nashoba: Tennessee Frances Wright: 1825 1828 An abolitionist, free-love community. (LEP) New Harmony: Indiana Robert Owen: 1825 1829 Former Harmonite Village bought by Owen that then became a Owenite colony United Order: Jackson County ...
Johann Georg Rapp was born on November 1, 1757, to Rosine Berger and Hans Adam Rapp (1720–71) in the village of Iptingen, 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Stuttgart in the Duchy of Württemberg. Rapp was the second child and oldest son of the family. His brother, Adam (born on March 9, 1762), and three sisters, Marie Dorothea (born October 11 ...